Merchandiser

catiaherrera; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holidays

Holiday buy

Hybrid working

Bonus scheme

Staff discount

Death in service

Pension 3% employer

Flexible start times

Employee assistance programme

Career progression

Company days

Job summary

DUSK in Leeds is seeking a Merchandiser to join our Product/Merchandising team. You will manage trading, inventories, and stock levels, while driving margins and promotions to achieve budget targets.

Leeds-based role with hybrid working, strong focus on data-driven decision making, and opportunities for career progression within a fast-growing home and lifestyle brand.

Qualifications

• Line management experience
• Analytical skills and data insight
• Strong time management and prioritisation
• Good commercial knowledge of the marketplace
• Team player attitude
• Solid understanding of WSSI

Responsibilities

• Trading and OTB management
• WSSI forecasting and weekly inventory meetings
• Preparation and delivery of management information
• Trading and management of sales, stock and clearance in season
• Monitors and maintains buying margin and gross profit margins
• Reviews sales forecasts based on performance and actions on forecasts
• Analyses best and worst sellers and makes recommendations
• Suggests sales-driving activity to reduce stock
• Clearance and markdown planning with buying
• End-to-end stock flow for relevant departments
• Drive stock turn and deliver stock targets
• Recommends promotions and rebuys
• Manage suppliers and relationships
• Input to strategic plans
• Analyse historical and in-season performance and act on results
• Support budgeting by category and depth of buy
• Help build a range plan with the buyer
• Promotional/seasonal planning support
• Identify and implement merchandising process improvements
• Coordinate with other departments to deliver plans
• Deputise for Head of Merchandising
• Support junior team members

Skills

Line management

Analytical skills

Decision making

Time management

Commercial knowledge

Team player

Tools

Excel

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team as Merchandiser working in Leeds as part of our Product/ Merchandising team.

Salary: Competitive Salary + excellent benefits package

Role Responsibilities:

• Trading
• OTB management
• WSSI forecasting and Weekly inventory meetings
• Preparation and delivery of management information
• Trading and management of sales, stock and clearance in season
• Monitors and maintains buying margin and gross profit margins as requested
• Reviews sales forecasts based on performance, and actions re forecasts
• Analyses and monitors best and worst sellers and makes informed recommendations for action
• Suggesting sales driving activity to drive cash and reduce stock where appropriate.
• Clearance and Markdown plans in conjunction with buying.
• End to end stock flow for relevant departments
• Drive stock turn and deliver business stock levels in line with budget. (Store/DC/Dockside)
• Recommends promotions and re buys as necessary
• Manage suppliers ensuring a strong mutually beneficial relationship
• Have an input to strategic plans
• Analyse historical and in season performance and be proactive in interpreting, communicating and acting on results
• Supporting planning of budgets by category, option count, and depth of buy based on the overall business and financial goals of the company
• Support the building of a range plan alongside the buyer
• Promotional/seasonal planning support
• Constantly identifying and implementing Merchandising process improvements
• Liaising cross functionally to deliver the department plans.
• Deputising for the Head of Merchandising when appropriate
• Support junior members of the team on a day to day basis and drive their development.

About You

• Line Management Experience
• Strong computer literacy skills – especially in Excel
• A solid understanding of WSSI
• Analytical skills – confident in working with and extract insight from data
• Strong decision making, time management skills and able to prioritise workload
• Good commercial knowledge – specifically on wider marketplace and broader business
• Team player attitude

About us

DUSK is a £200m home and lifestyle brand. We are an award winning and fast-growing e-commerce brand in the home and garden sector, known for innovation and high-quality products.

Since 2016, our dedicated team at our Leeds HQ have been designing stylish homeware and furniture at affordable prices. DUSK is an online-first brand, and by designing and sourcing everything ourselves, we’re able to curate our own collections and pass on the savings directly to our customers.

Whether you are seeking signature furniture pieces or the perfect finishing accents, our curated ranges deliver accessible elegance to every living space, empowering you to realise your ideal home vision.

As a trusted British brand, our team in our Doncaster warehouses work hard behind the scenes to make sure every order is carefully packed and delivered on time.

• 25 days holidays (plus bank holidays) as standard, plus additional days based on length of service
• Option to buy additional holidays (by a maximum of 5 days)
• Hybrid working: 3 days in the office, 2 work from home (if applicable)
• Bonus Scheme
• Staff Discount Scheme on DUSK products
• Death in service
• Company pension (3% employer contributions)
• Flexible start and finish times (if applicable)
• Access to employee assistance programme through ‘Spark’, including 24/7 helpline, virtual GP and counselling services to support your health and wellbeing.
• Excellent Career progression and training opportunities
• Opportunities to partake in company days

Due to the high volume of applications, on some occasions we are unable to reply to each individual applicant. If you do not hear from us within four weeks, then unfortunately your application has not been successful.

We will keep your application on file for six months and we will consider you for future roles within the organisation during this time. Your information will be deleted after six-months. If you wish to be considered for roles after this point, then you will need to re-apply.